Keep Going
Two guys - a shoe designer & a coach - talk shit about running, mostly. This podcast is our therapy & fills a critical need for human conversation in our lives. Welcome along for the ride.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 101
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
A Perfect Day: On The Long Run
Ahhh, the iconic Lou Reed with singing the title to this week's Keep Going podcast. In this episode, Michael & I finally get back to a specific running training topic. We wax poetic, abound locquatio…
Anthony Bourdain Ain't No Sell Out
In this episode of the Keep Going podcast, Michael & discuss some of the implications around a recent podcast episode discussing various aspects of GenX culture that inspired us. You can view this at…
A Pebble on the Beach of Your Fitness
In this episode, we break down what is really happening when we gain fitness. I sense that there is a pretty big misunderstanding around the actual mechanisms, the levers that we pull to develop fitn…
Embracing Uncertainty: Pattern & Chaos in Assessing Results
This episode is in honor of Lightenin' Larry Bright. Larry was an athlete I coached, a coach I mentored & a friend with whom I shared miles & smiles & tears. Larry took his own life recently & I want…
Cobbled Together: Talk Talk, Triathlon & Takeaways
In this episode, your intrepid hosts try something new. We didn't feel like we had enough of a robust topic to fill our usual 60-75 minute conversational window, so we decided to cobble something tog…
This Podcast Is Our Therapy (The Practice)
The conversations Michael & I have sometimes feel like therapy. There is the sense that we can work out whatever happens to be front & center in our personal & professional lives through talking it o…
Do We Really Need Shoes?
An episode where we talk about the foundations & fundamentals of footwear.
Locals, Classics & Epics: How To Select A Race
Coming at you with back to back episodes this week...a little 2 fer 1 action. We have a little back log in the Keep Going pipeline & decided to try to get caught up. We are doing this because we've …
Drinking From A Poisoned Well: A Hot Take On Doping
Get ready for some heat, folks. Please be advised that there are portions of this episode where I go off on obscenity laden tirades & passion fueled laments. Michael holds down the emotional fort to …
Loaded: Optimizing Training in a Base Phase
In this episode, Michael & I discuss how to add quality training into a base phase. We talk through a specific session that Michael jumped into a few weeks ago in the middle of this experimental base…
Strange Attractors: A Conversation on Living & Dying
This episode is in memoriam to my father, Thomas Edward Sisson, who passed from the finite game into the Infinite Game on September 12, 2023. Michael & I discuss mentors, living & dying, strange attr…
The Systems 04: Maffetone & the Maximum Aerobic Function
This episode is a first for us, we take a listener question about a specific training method - The Maffetone Method - & discuss Michael's experience training with the method for between 12-24 months …
A Magical Sense of Place
This episode is both an homage to Austin's unique & idiosyncratic running vibe & a call for listeners to explore their own local running haunts as power places. We try to set the stage for how the so…
10,000 Runs: Curiosity as Ultimate Aim
What started in an insightful conversation at the dinner table between Michael & his wife, Lena, inspires this dive into the nature of the meaning of running & life & a challenge is issued. This epis…
A Suffering Diptych, Part II: The Feast of Suffering
This is the second part of a diptych, a two-part artwork designed & connected in theme & style, yet retaining their own individual frame. The first part, released yesterday was recorded in early Jul…
A Suffering Diptych, Part I: Meeting the Devil at the Crossroads
It's been awhile but we're making it up to you with two episodes being released on back to back days. Unfortunately we hit a little bump in the road. A few weeks ago, John determined that he couldn't…
OpenSourcing A Running Culture: Paul Carrozza Part II
The second in our series of episodes highlighting the iconic & inspiring "Godfather of Austin Running", Paul Carrozza.
The Systems 03: A Very Good Place To Start
In this episode of Keep Going, Michael & I roll without John but his spirit is certainly present. In the last episode, John & I introduced our concept of Four Systems & how nearly all training can be…
The Systems 02: The Four Systems of the Apocalypse
Hello. Welcome back to another edition of the Keep Going podcast. In this episode we dive into what we have craft-fully termed the Four Systems of the Apocalypse. The four horseman are:
- The Musculos…
The Systems 01: Training's 5 W's
Alrighty. So I am going to keep this intro very short & sweet. What we have on tap for you this week is a lengthy introduction into what we think will be a series of episodes on what makes training T…